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Am I the only one who thinks there's a market for sub £200 PCs that haven't got very good specs?
If some company can go out, take that plunge and manufacture sub-£200 PCs, I think it would take off with a certain market.
Students who use their PC for typing up work, internet and e-mail.
Old People.
People getting into PCs but don't want to pay £600+ for one.
Am I going insane, or does this seam like a feasible idea?
HHAT
If some company can go out, take that plunge and manufacture sub-£200 PCs, I think it would take off with a certain market.
Students who use their PC for typing up work, internet and e-mail.
Old People.
People getting into PCs but don't want to pay £600+ for one.
Am I going insane, or does this seam like a feasible idea?
HHAT
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Am I the only one who thinks there's a market for sub £200 PCs that haven't got very good specs?
If some company can go out, take that plunge and manufacture sub-£200 PCs, I think it would take off with a certain market.
Students who use their PC for typing up work, internet and e-mail.
Old People.
People getting into PCs but don't want to pay £600+ for one.
Am I going insane, or does this seam like a feasible idea?
HHAT
If some company can go out, take that plunge and manufacture sub-£200 PCs, I think it would take off with a certain market.
Students who use their PC for typing up work, internet and e-mail.
Old People.
People getting into PCs but don't want to pay £600+ for one.
Am I going insane, or does this seam like a feasible idea?
HHAT
One kid did this a couple of years back. While sitting an exam, he started daydreaming about his own business and the idea came to him. So he persued it.
He's now a millionaire.
He built the sub-standard machines and sold them on to schools.
Now he has staff working for him too.
He's now a millionaire.
He built the sub-standard machines and sold them on to schools.
Now he has staff working for him too.
Manufacturing slow components costs no less than manufacturing fast components in most cases. If you buy a £200 PC, it's either severely cutting corners or 2nd hand.
Miserableman wrote:
> Manufacturing slow components costs no less than manufacturing fast
> components in most cases. If you buy a £200 PC, it's either
> severely cutting corners or 2nd hand.
Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a decent computer for £200 to £300...
> Manufacturing slow components costs no less than manufacturing fast
> components in most cases. If you buy a £200 PC, it's either
> severely cutting corners or 2nd hand.
Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a decent computer for £200 to £300...
]-[ØM€® B€Á®D §ØL!D wrote:
> Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that
> price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a
> decent computer for £200 to £300...
You can get a good quality processor, heatsink/fan, motherboard, stick of RAM, graphics card, power supply, case, hard disk, CD drive, sound-card, modem/network card, monitor, keyboard, mouse and operating system for £300? Do tell.
> Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that
> price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a
> decent computer for £200 to £300...
You can get a good quality processor, heatsink/fan, motherboard, stick of RAM, graphics card, power supply, case, hard disk, CD drive, sound-card, modem/network card, monitor, keyboard, mouse and operating system for £300? Do tell.
]-[ØM€® B€Á®D §ØL!D wrote:
> Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that
> price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a
> decent computer for £200 to £300...
Is it made of Lego?
> Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that
> price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a
> decent computer for £200 to £300...
Is it made of Lego?
It's a good idea, and one which we were already thinking about. See the next mag for more details.
Miserableman wrote:
> ]-[ØM€® B€Á®D §ØL!D wrote:
> Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that
> price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a
> decent computer for £200 to £300...
>
> You can get a good quality processor, heatsink/fan, motherboard,
> stick of RAM, graphics card, power supply, case, hard disk, CD drive,
> sound-card, modem/network card, monitor, keyboard, mouse and
> operating system for £300? Do tell.
Yeah, we have a bulk buying computer hardware retailer/warehouse thingy near where we live... We managed to make up a 2Ghz system with 256Mb RAM, a good motherboard with onboard sound, 128Mb Radeon GFX card, case, 60Gb Hard-disk, CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo, and a 56k modem. We already had a Monitor but they are really cheap, and the decent keyboards with hotkeys etc are like £5... it came to a bit over £300, and the case already had 3 fans in it and came with a Processor heatsink aswell... and i've just realised there are like 8 USB ports on it aswell... email me [email protected] if you want more info... else these posts will probably get removed...
> ]-[ØM€® B€Á®D §ØL!D wrote:
> Or why not do what i do - and make top of the range PC's for that
> price? if you know where to get the parts you can easily make a
> decent computer for £200 to £300...
>
> You can get a good quality processor, heatsink/fan, motherboard,
> stick of RAM, graphics card, power supply, case, hard disk, CD drive,
> sound-card, modem/network card, monitor, keyboard, mouse and
> operating system for £300? Do tell.
Yeah, we have a bulk buying computer hardware retailer/warehouse thingy near where we live... We managed to make up a 2Ghz system with 256Mb RAM, a good motherboard with onboard sound, 128Mb Radeon GFX card, case, 60Gb Hard-disk, CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo, and a 56k modem. We already had a Monitor but they are really cheap, and the decent keyboards with hotkeys etc are like £5... it came to a bit over £300, and the case already had 3 fans in it and came with a Processor heatsink aswell... and i've just realised there are like 8 USB ports on it aswell... email me [email protected] if you want more info... else these posts will probably get removed...
Miserableman wrote:
> Manufacturing slow components costs no less than manufacturing fast
> components in most cases.
Surely the main bulk of the costs of the PC are in the componenets, and not putting them together?
> Manufacturing slow components costs no less than manufacturing fast
> components in most cases.
Surely the main bulk of the costs of the PC are in the componenets, and not putting them together?
HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> Surely the main bulk of the costs of the PC are in the componenets,
> and not putting them together?
Indeed, but it costs little more to manufacture a high capacity hard disk compared to a low capacity hard disk, for example. Assuming you have the equipment to make both high speed devices and low speed devices, the actual price of manufacture rarely belies the difference in performance between the two.
> Surely the main bulk of the costs of the PC are in the componenets,
> and not putting them together?
Indeed, but it costs little more to manufacture a high capacity hard disk compared to a low capacity hard disk, for example. Assuming you have the equipment to make both high speed devices and low speed devices, the actual price of manufacture rarely belies the difference in performance between the two.
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